Merrily Harpur is a painter, printmaker, writer, cartoonist and author. Founder of the Irish Strokestown International Poetry Festival, she has also been director of the Fox Festival and lectured internationally on mystery big cats, the daimonic world and the myths and archetypes inherent in foxhunting. She lives in Dorset.
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